Author Archives: Victor D. Infante

‘Everybody else don’t move, that’s off they ears, oh he gone get in trouble,
that’s off they memory, they don’t move, they enslaved, they enslaved
to what could possibly happen’ – Kanye West … Continue reading→

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Reasons To Hope – Radius, Volume Eight

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March 25, 2018 by author

Victor D. Infante

By Victor D. Infante

Sometimes, I am so full of hope that it hurts. It burns inside my chest against all reason, restraining my impulse to build some bunker out in the woods away from humanity. Which is good, because … Continue reading→

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Feels Like Failure, Every Time: Gun violence, superheroes and saving the supervillain

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March 7, 2018 by author

Victor D. Infante

By Victor D. Infante

There is a level where the very phrase “mass shooting” has become stripped of its shock value. A school in Florida or Connecticut, a movie theater in Colorado, a church in South Carolina, a country … Continue reading→

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‘So, uhm, how do you write a poem?’: The First Part of Our ‘Gauntlet’ Advice On Writing Series

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January 15, 2018 by author

Victor D. Infante

By Sam Cha, David Lehman, Ellyn Maybe, Mindy Nettifee, Amber Tamblyn, Cecilia Woloch and Robert Wynne

From The Editor: When we first announced our yearlong writing challenge, The Gauntlet, we were pleased to find interest from many fiction … Continue reading→

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